Legends of Welsh Sport

Legends of Welsh Sport

2022
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 14 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 29 min/episode
Documentary
Looking back on some of the greatest and most inspiring stories in Welsh sport – from the underdogs who defied the odds to the game changers who changed their sports and their country.

Seasons

Season 1
2022 • 5 Episodes
An emotive portrait of Welsh rugby icon John Dawes. The man who revolutionised the game as both player and coach led Wales to multiple Grand Slams, inspired the Lions to their only tour victory on New Zealand soil, and was also at the centre of the ‘greatest try of all time’ with the Barbarians. For the first time, John Dawes’s son and grandsons, along with a star-studded host of rugby players, including Gareth Edwards, John Taylor and Gerald Davies, look back at the life of a legend and learn how his legacy lives on to this day.
Season 2
2022 • 9 Episodes
A unique and nostalgic film celebrating the remarkable career of Welsh football legend John Toshack. From a decade at the top as a player with Bill Shankly’s iconic Liverpool team, to unprecedented success as a manager both here and abroad, this is a fitting and warm tribute to the man known to many simply as ‘Tosh’.

Network

BBC Two, BBC One

Production

BBC Cymru Wales, Nimbus Productions, One Tribe TV

Keywords

biographysports